This juice and tea drink was incredibly refreshing. Mango was definitely the predominant flavor, but the green tea lightened it so that it wasn't straight juice. The bubbles, of course, are the fun part. Bubble tea typically has small tapioca pearls, giving little chewy bites that take on some of the flavor of the drink. The surprise here are the popping bubbles, which are starting to become more prevalent. My assumption is that these are created with a little molecular gastronomy, creating pearls that burst with juice when you bite into them. The one thing I would change here was the amount of these bubbles. I was typically sucking up one or two with each swallow in the large straw. But by the time I finished the drink, there were still 2-3 layers of bubbles at the bottom of the cup. Not sure I needed that many. They're fun to chew on with the drink, but I didn't need to sit there and eat them on their own.
One other note for the China booth: it was around 7:45 on the first night of the festival, and they were apparently out of Mongolian beef. I expect this was just an opening night miscalculation, but it was a little worrisome given the rain kept crowd levels down. Hopefully, they'll correct that moving forward.
